New year, new website!

January 11, 2015

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Happy new year! We’re thrilled to launch the new and improved nwkidney.org, a website with need-to-know information for patients, easy-to-sort recipes, and details about upcoming classes. You’ll also find stories from our patients and donors about their personal experiences with kidney disease and Northwest Kidney Centers. One of the best things about this website? All the photos on it show members of our community – patients living full lives with kidney disease, donors supporting our programs, and staff members carrying out our mission.

Here are just a few other features to check out.

Information for patients new to kidney disease

If you’ve recently been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, you might be shocked, scared and worried. You also might be bombarded with information. Our Get Started section was created especially with people like you in mind. Visit this section to search for a kidney doctor, learn the basics of dialysis and transplant and find out what lifestyle changes you can make right now to you’re your kidney disease down. In short, learn what to do next and where to go for more information.

Get started with kidney disease — find a kidney doctor and learn about nutrition and fitness, dialysis and transplant in our Get Started section.

Recipes, recipes, recipes!

If the large, close-up images of our recipes don’t make your mouth water, maybe the new sorting tools will. You can now sort our recipes by diet requirements and restrictions. If you need something low in phosphorus, just check that box. Something high in potassium but low in protein? Check those two boxes and the recipes will automatically filter. You can also sort by meal type (appetizer, lunch, dinner, for example). All of our recipes are low in salt and have earned the seal of approval from our team of registered dietitians. If a recipe looks just too good to keep to yourself, click the links at the top to share it with your friends, or print it out.

Visit our recipes section to find scrumptious, kidney-friendly recipes like this one for macaroni and cheese.

Northwest Kidney Centers is a not-for-profit, locally managed provider of kidney dialysis, public health education and research into the causes and treatments of chronic kidney disease. Founded in Seattle in 1962, it was the world's first dialysis organization. The 8th-largest dialysis provider in the country, it is an influential model because of its high quality services, deep community connections and generous donor support.